We did some tests to see what's possible with #virtualcells today with all the headlines. Turns out what's available for #training is what really matters, not the assay. Like #AGI to #AI, what we have today is narrow #virtual #cells. But there is a path to generality.
blog.turbine.ai/p/what-can-v...

There such a big disconnect between how #pharma insiders view the value of #AI and what's in the news. It's because retrospective #clinical #data prediction is very different than for a new #drug.
blog.turbine.ai/p/the-patient-puzzle
Thanks to #MSK and #Champions for supporting us in this effort!

The reason doing #ML in #biology is much harder than doing ML on text is that "ground truth" is very different.
In the post below I'll show you the first 5 things we check when curating one single data point to teach the right idea to the #AI. #compbio #virtualcell

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Why can #AI work in #biology?

It's not about hidden shortcuts to do raw physics. I think it's because we are learning how evolution was shaping us over all this time to survive.
blog.turbine.ai/p/why-can-we...
So maybe we should move on from individual proteins to learning relations of processes.

Single-cell foundation models, trained on large-scale scRNA-seq datasets, are increasingly used for post-perturbation RNA-seq prediction.

But how do they actually perform?

Our new paper from @turbine-ai.bsky.social is now out in BMC Genomics. bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Turns out the way we usually pre-train foundational cell models adds very little information to the system - definitely not enough to make drug effect predictions work. Not what I've expected.
#virtualcells #foundationalmodels #compbio

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The 'Google Co-Scientist' claims to be 'Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist'

But does it?

A closer look at its scientific validation as currently reported

Please share and let me know if you have any comments, cheers! Andreas

www.drugdiscovery.net/2025/02/20/t...

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